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May 18, 2023, 11:20 PM

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Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
OpenAI launches a free ChatGPT app for iOS in the US, offering the web version's features plus history sync across devices and speech input via OpenAI's Whisper  —  App brings popular AI assistant to an official mobile client app for the first time.  —  On Thursday, OpenAI released …
Brian Fung / CNN:
SCOTUS declines to address Section 230 protections in Gonzalez v. Google and shields Twitter from liability for terror-related content in Twitter v. Taamneh  —  Twitter will not have to face accusations it aided and abetted terrorism when it hosted tweets created by the terror group ISIS, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia debuts the $299 GeForce RTX 4060, its cheapest 40-series card, and $499 RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, available in July; the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB ships on May 24 for $399  —  Nvidia has officially announced its RTX 4060 family of GPUs.  This includes the RTX 4060 Ti, which will debut next week …
Wall Street Journal:
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources detail Apple's headset ahead of WWDC: shifting the vision from eyeglasses to ski goggles, Tim Cook's product noninvolvement, selling at cost, and more  —  Many times throughout its history, Apple Inc. has redefined consumer technology by breathing new life into an existing category …
David C. Banks / Chalkbeat New York:
New York City Public Schools lifts its ban on ChatGPT and other generative AI models, and will now support educators and students to learn about and explore AI  —  After a cautious start, our approach to AI technology is evolving.  —  As Chancellor of the nation's largest school system …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Twitter increases its video upload limits for Blue subscribers from one hour and 2GB to two hours and 8GB, but the maximum resolution remains at 1080p  —  Twitter has made changes to its paid plan, allowing subscribers to upload two-hour-long videos — expanding the previous 60-minute limit.
SemiAnalysis:
A look at AmpereOne, Ampere's new third-generation data center CPU, the company's first to use an in-house architecture, and its disingenuous performance claims  —  Chiplets, Advanced Packaging, and Disingenuous Performance Claims  —  Ampere Computing specializes in CPUs for the cloud datacenter market.
Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:
Binance Australia can no longer offer Australian dollar deposits due to a decision by Cuscal, its “payment processor's partner bank”, and warns of disruptions  —  The Australian arm of crypto exchange Binance suffered a setback on Thursday after the local platform lost access …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta outlines its RSC supercomputer and its work on two chips: MTIA for accelerating AI training, set for release in 2025, and MSVP, for video processing needs  —  At a virtual event this morning, Meta lifted the curtains on its efforts to develop in-house infrastructure for AI workloads …
New York Times:
Meta's unusual move to open source LLaMA stands out from its rivals' approach, driven by the belief that sharing its work will help spread its influence in AI  —  The tech giant has publicly released its latest A.I. technology so people can build their own chatbots.  Rivals like Google say that approach can be dangerous.
Mark Hachman / PCWorld:
A look at Sightful's Spacetop, an Android laptop with an AR headset for a 100" virtual display in lieu of a screen, available to 1,000 early adopters for $2,000  —  Sightful's Spacetop AR laptop is brought to you by the chief executive behind the Microsoft Kinect.  —  Laptops have a problem: their screen.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ESPN is laying the groundwork to offer its TV channel as a subscription streaming service by securing flexibility in league and cable provider deals  —  Internal project code-named ‘Flagship’ lays out shift in coming years, as talks with leagues and cable partners have begun
Wall Street Journal:
Sources and docs: Midwest nonprofit Veritas Society used geofenced data to serve abortion clinic visitors anti-abortion ads on Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat  —  Wisconsin group used precise geolocation data until last year to direct ads to women it suspected of seeking abortions
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google plans to disable third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users and migrate them to Privacy Sandbox in Q1 2024 and then do so for all Chrome users in H2 2024  —  Google's Privacy Sandbox aims to replace third-party cookies with a more privacy-conscious approach, allowing users to manage …

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